Smitty Two wrote:
In article ,
Nate Nagel wrote:

I've pretty much given up on finding any
metric stainless hardware locally

Really? If you live in a city large enough to support a half dozen
machine shops, I'd be surprised if there wasn't a tool and hardware
store dedicated to serving them. It'll be on a dead-end side street in
the industrial part of town. They'll have 100 or 1000 times the hardware
that your average big box has, but of course you'll have to go talk to
the guy at the counter to get it, because it won't be in little plastic
bags hanging on a customer-accessible pegboard.

They have those around here. Open 0700-1600, M-F. Which is fine for
their main customers- Joe Blow civilian buying 20 bucks a year is at
best a nuisance to them anyway. You gotta know exactly what you want
when you walk in, though. Vendors to the trade may tolerate retail
customers, but no hand-holding is offered.

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